After all, the choice of Canada was as much for the man in the White House as the one who would be the Prime Minister in Ottawa.
The margin was thin but Canadians It was clear. With the tariffs of President Donald Trump, threatening the foundations of their economy, voters wanted the leader of Canada to be the central banker who focuses on the global financial crisis and Brexit.
Mark CarneyWho has not even been a member of parliament until Monday night, is now about to lead a minority government with a mandate to face Trump. He promised “wide renegotiation of our security and trade relations” with the United States, the closest ally in Canada and the largest trading partner.
“Once again, we are in one of those moments of history,” Carney told Jubilant supporters of a victory rally in Ottawa. “Our old relationship with the United States, based on stable integration, is over.”
“American betrayal” was a tragedy, Carney said, “But this is our new reality.”
“America wants our land, our resources, water, our country. These are not an idle threats.”
After almost a decade of Justin Trudeau’s progressive policy, Carney moved the Liberal Party resolutely to the center and placed the Canadian sovereignty and the opposition of Trump – which threatened to annex the country – at the heart of its terrain to the voters.
“These were very serious elections and these issues were almost existential,” Jean Cretien, Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003, told the Financial Times. “There is a mandate that is clear, the Canadians want him to oppose the threat that is a Trump,” he said.
Carney’s victory will resonate far beyond CanadaEspecially in the western capitals and global meeting rooms, where former Goldman Sachs CEO is already a certain amount – and now it is becoming a strong figure among the world leaders ready to face Trump.
Sandro Gosi, an Italian politician who led the Liberal Parties of Europe in the EU elections last year, said Carney’s victory was “the first victory of democracy against a new and unacceptable imperialist and bullia action from Washington.”
“This can inspire other countries,” Gosi said. “Carney’s victory is crucial. Not only to Canada, but for all Democrats in the world.”
Carney’s campaign took advantage of the basis of patriotism as the Canadians delayed the ridicule and tariffs of Trump, pulling wine from Napa Valley from the shelves of alcohol stores and the bumping of the American national anthem of ice hockey games.
By the early hours of Tuesday morning, the liberals were on the way to win 168 seats in the 343-part municipal house, much ahead of the Conservatives in 144 places, but a shortage per majority.
The minority government would be challenging Carney. His first priority should be to negotiate a voting transaction with a partner like the new Democratic Party, leaving his premiere in a behavior model for now.
NDR, who also supported the previous Trudeau government, was about to win seven seats. Although his leader Jagmet Singh resigned after failing to win his place, the left -wing party would have a balance of power and could hold Carney to buy politics and legislation.
The coming presence of the President of the United States in the election is injured by conservative party leader Pierre Polyver, who enjoyed a huge lead in the ballot box until the beginning of the year and was about to lose his seat, according to CBC.
The reversal of Piolievre’s riches will be carefully monitored by other right -wing parties, which may now be more likely to close to Trump.
Even when the Canadians went to the ballot box on Monday, Trump urges voters to choose a leader who will turn the country 51 country as “it was supposed to be.” A Carney advisor said Trump’s intervention was a “gift” of the former central banker.
“Mark Carney and I were at school together,” said Connecticut -based representative Jim Hims on X in response to Trump’s message. “If I had told him,” Mark, one day Donald Trump would be president of the United States and he would make you a Prime Minister of Canada with one hand, “he would call the campus security to take me home.”
Carney will host the G7 summit in Cannaskis, Alberta Province in June in particularly tense times between the world leaders with Trump, who is expected to travel to Canada.
Trump’s return to the White House in January came only a few weeks after Trudeau retired as a leader of the Liberal after nearly a decade in power.
Carney, who replaced the Trudeau of the Liberal Party in March, made his imprint quickly, defending an unpopular carbon tax, which was one of the main lines of Poiliev’s attack against the liberals.
Trump’s trade war, which began with extensive tariff threats against Canada and Mexico, proved to be the opportunity for Carney.
Former Harvard and Oxford hockey goalkeeper, Carney cited an aggressive position of the ice in response to Trump with the slogan: “Elcts up, Canada.”
Cretien praised Carney’s performance along the campaign path. “He remained calm and controlled, for a newcomer, who performed extremely well,” he said.
Carney promised to turn Canada into the “strongest economy in the G7”, although many voters were disappointed with the growth rate.
A novice politician, who spent a career with three decades of Wall Street and manages central banks, will now have to negotiate with Trump and lead the Canada economy through a global trade war.
He has promised to reduce significant internal trade barriers in Canada and form new trade unions in Asia and Europe to diversify Canada’s economy away from the US Superiata.
Economy management through this transition after decades of deep integration with the United States will be a challenge.
“The audience is behind it now, but political support tends to be a reducing resource,” says Roland Paris, a professor at the University of Ottawa and a former Trudo advisor. “Many of Carney’s promises will require years of agreed efforts to make.”
Carney will need to try to keep the automotive sector in Canada, which is at risk of tariffs, as well as to increase productivity and balance the increased export of resources with environmental fears, Paris added.
Janice Stein, the founder of Toronto Mook Director, the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, said anger and fear encouraged the Canadians to vote for Carney, but his touching campaign could lead to difficulties in the government.
“Leading the” rebels “against the United States is a role that no Canadian Prime Minister can afford to play,” she said, considering the economy’s connections with America and the integration of countries’ supply chains. “Divorce is simply not possible.”